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DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a

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Space solar startup Aetherflux raises $50M to launch first space demo in 2026

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million in a

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“This isn’t ‘The Matrix'”

Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was

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Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in

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A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models

The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by prominent AI researcher François Chollet, announced in a blog post on Monday

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Meta settles UK ‘right to object to ad-tracking’ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff

A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for

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Trump fires FTC commissioners, setting up a legal battle

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, setting up a challenge to

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Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic partner to launch electric air taxis in the UK

Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in

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As Intel welcomes a new CEO, a look at where the company stands

Semiconductor giant Intel hired semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan to be its new CEO. This news comes three months after Pat

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Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’

Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert.